Our big trip
A few thoughts and photos from our travels
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Day 186 – Sunrise and a sea swim
28th February: Nha Trang, Vietnam to Quy Nhon Vietnam Keeping up the theme of maximising our 24 hours in Nha Trang, we were up before sunrise. We thought watching it over the sea would be a lovely, peaceful thing to do. None of that really panned out at it was cloudy and the seafront was…
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Day 185 – Cloud forests to palm beaches
27th February: Dalat, Vietnam to Nha Trang, Vietnam Yet again, we were the first bus pick up this morning. Our driver was another very friendly guy and drove safely and steadily. Every single bus company seems to have reviews about how rude and dangerous they are but that’s not been our experience on any journey…
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Day 184 – Coffee permaculture in the Vietnamese Highlands
26th February: Dalat, Vietnam Today was a chance to do something special! We got a taxi out of town through the pine forests and into the hills where coffee grows, and poly tunnels sit in the valleys between. We were dropped at the end of the twisting road and walked on along the single-track path…
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Day 183 – Are you sure this is Vietnam?
25th February: Dalat, Vietnam On our way for a wander, I picked up a super strong and sweet little coffee from a place on the corner near the hotel. It apparently wasn’t enough, however, so instead of lunch I went to chill in a café instead for another caffeine hit. They also gave me a…
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Day 182 – Another eternal spring
24th February: Dalat, Vietnam We’re 1,500 metres up, here on the Langbian plateau. Da Lat was originally built by French colonialists at the start of the 20th century, as a retreat from the heat of the lowlands, which perhaps explains the number of churches (and general chaos in terms of town planning!). The town is…
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Day 181 – Up into the highlands
23rd February: Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam to Dalat, Vietnam We were eating breakfast when somebody came into the hotel clearly looking for somebody. Our bus pick-up wasn’t for another half-hour but immediately I had a hunch it was for us. I’d heard about this happening lots and we were packed and ready just in…
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Day 180 – The suffering of millions
22nd February: Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam It was a cloudy, warm, and muggy start to the day. A layer of pollution visibly hung in the air as we crossed busy roads to wander down the alleyways. We came across a lovely café to chill for a short while and I decided to try one…
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Day 179 – The home of street food
21st February: Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam After breakfast, I wandered the beautiful alleys around our accommodation. You could stay here photographing for weeks! The café I ended up in also made an amazing oat milk iced latte, which I enjoyed whilst writing and putting together playlists of the latest music releases. I’m lucky to…
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Day 178 – Authentic alleyways
20th February: Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Ho Chi Minh City is lively but the buzz is genuine from locals going about their day to day lives. It’s also probably the most photogenic place I’ve ever visited, although I didn’t have the energy to compose the best street scenes today. It’s definitely my favourite capital…
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Day 177 – The final frontier
19th February: Phnom Penh, Cambodia to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Kaja was still ill, which wasn’t a good situation ahead of a six-and-a-half-hour bus journey. We had some breakfast, or at least I did, and jumped in a tuktuk across Phnom Penh. This doubled as Kaja’s tour of the city! We’d snagged the final…